Philadelphia County PA Archives Biographies.....Walter WILLIAMSON (1811-1870)
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WALTER WILLIAMSON (Enos, John, Sarah, George), b. Newtown, 1-4-1811; d. Philadelphia,
12-19-1870; m. 8-10-1833, at residence of Rev. William T Brantley, Sr., Phila., to 
Mary Matilda Massey, b. at No. 4 Penn St, Phiia., 12- 4-1810; dau. of John Massey and
Sarah Strong (m. Nov. 1, 1792),last of Pine, below 3d St., Phila. He was a physician 
and resided at N.E. corner of 11th & Filbert Sts., Philadelphia.
From a memorial sketch of Dr. Williamson it appears that he began the study of 
medicine in his twentieth year,in the oHice of Benjamin Rush Erwin, M.D., and in the 
same year entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, becoming 
soon after the private pupil of William E Horner, M.D., the distinguished professor 
of anatomy in the University. He received his degree of doctor of medicine on the 
27th of March, 1833, and entered into partnership with his former preceptor, Dr. 
Erwin, in Marple, Delaware county; but a year later Dr. Erwin removed to another 
locality, leaving Dr. Williamson with a large practice, which was still further 
increased by the purchase, on April 1, 1835, of the residence of Dr. Richard Gardiner,
in Newtown. In 1836 the new school of Homoeopathy was brought to his attention and 
after a careful examination he became a convert to its doctrines. His health failing 
under a large and laborious practice he relinquished this, in 1838, to his former 
preceptor, Dr. Erwin, and removed for a brief period to Maryland; by which change his 
vigor was restored, and in 1839 he located as a physician in Philadelphia, where he 
soon acquired a large practice. He was one of the founders of the Homoeopathic Medical 
College, in 1848, and was chosen to fill the chair of Obstetrics and the Diseases of 
Women and Children; afterward that of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, besides being 
dean of the faculty from 1848 to 1851. In I868 he was elected president of the State 
Medical Society. The last labor of his life was the preparation of a history of 
Homoeopathy in Philadelphia.

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